Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book: Recipes from an American Childhood by Jim Fobel

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert
    • Ingredients: cocoa powder; cake flour; butter; sugar; heavy cream; dark chocolate
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  • Lunacran on December 13, 2018

    Good peanut butter cookie recipe 14 minute bake A tiny bit sweet maybe next time use a little less white sugar

  • Lindacakes on April 20, 2014

    The pie section (pages 63 to 91) looks particularly good. There are lots of coffee cake recipes in the Quick Breads (page 93) and Yeast Breads (page 113) sections. There are a lot of bar cookie recipes, as well as recipes that use berries and cardamom.

  • Breadcrumbs on April 06, 2011

    p. 44 -Last night I made Grandma’s Blackberry Cake from Jim Fobel’s Old-Fashioned Baking Book. This is the first recipe I’ve tried from this appealing little book and we really enjoyed the cake. I will say that Jim describes it as having a sweet-tangy flavor and a rich marbleized colour. While he describes the flavour well, the colour was fairly uniform. Given that Fobel has you beat the batter for one minute with and electric mixer after the addition of the very tender blackberries, I find it hard to believe that anyone would achieve a marbleized colour. Appearance aside, this really is a delicious cake with a moist, tender crumb and a comforting familiar aroma that I just couldn’t place. The cake really did take us back to our childhoods though. I omitted the pecans. Photos here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/773062#6443265 Looking forward to further exploring this book.

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  • ISBN 10 0962740365
  • ISBN 13 9780962740367
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  • Published Apr 01 1996
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 207
  • Language English
  • Edition Revised
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Lake Isle Press

Publishers Text

Back in Print! One of our all-time favorites, this American baking classic features over 150 remarkable recipes for cakes, cookies, quick breads, puddings and pies.


I welcome back a classic that deserves the name. These recipes work and make old-fashioned bakers of us all. Barbara Kafka, author


God Bless Jim Fobel for preserving this treasury of old family recipes, for testing each and every one in terms of today's cooks, and for wrapping them in such delicious nostalgia. I've never seen a more tantalizing collection of down-home, back-to-scratch cookies and cakes, breads, pudding and pies. Jean Anderson, Author

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